Buddhist Society of Western Australia
Dharma talks from the tradition of Buddhist meditation master Ajahn Brahm and Australian Forest Sangha of monks and nuns presented by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia
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Friday Oct 16, 2020
Friday Oct 16, 2020
Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately half an hour.
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Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Responding to a question, Ajahn Brahm talks about how to deal with (the many!) difficult people there are in the world by applying the insights of Buddhist practice.
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Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Fear creates so much suffering and unnecessary problems in our lives, and for many people a key aim is to overcome fear and experience a state of fearlessness. Ajahn Brahm explains how it’s important to understand fear and even to understand why we are addicted to fear.
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Ajahn Brahm believes the posture he thinks is best for his meditation, is never as good as the one he gets after asking his body how it wants to sit. Ajahn explains the importance of listening to your body and adjusting your posture for meditation.
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Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Ajahn Brahm teaches the importance of having a positive relationship with our experiences in life. Ajahn encourages us to embrace our life’s unpleasantness, learn from it and make peace with it, rather than become upset or anxious.
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Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Ajahn Brahm guides a meditation for approximately half an hour.
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Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Ajahn Nissarano gives a Dhamma talk and guided meditation from Newbury Buddhist Monastery, Victoria, Australia (www.nbm.org.au) on believed to be on 3 February 2020. The theme of this guided meditation is wisdom. Ajahn Nissarano covers the four noble truths - suffering/unsatisfactoriness, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering. Ajahn gives a guided meditation to make peace with whatever we experience in the meditation, whether it be in the body or the mind. To accept whatever we are experiencing.
Recorded by the Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV). Please visit the BSV Podcast Channel and BSV YouTube Channel
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Teaching retrieved from: https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/PBD225214QAPD
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
A Dhamma talk recorded at the Buddhist Society of Victoria (BSV), by Ajahn Nissarano on the 1st March 2020. In this Dhamma talk, Ajahn Nissarano covers Mudita - joy along with others. By developing joy in our mind by piggybacking on other people's happiness, this will increase the wholesome states of minds and reduce the negative qualities of mind.
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To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Teaching retrieved from: https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/PBD9A46BPNA4H
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Introduction to Buddhism Q&A Series for New Buddhists, kindly conducted by lay Buddhist Geetha Mendis.
Session 1: The Three Refuges (05-09-2020)
Session 2: The Five Precepts (12-09-2020) - apologies no sound was recorded, so not published.
Session 3: The Four Noble Truths (19-09-2020). (Slides on website).
Session 4: The Noble Eightfold Path (26-09-2020), audio failed, so it was recorded again on 09-10-2020.
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Find the whole series, including notes here: https://bswa.org/teaching/introduction-buddhism-qa-series-new-buddhists-1-4/
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Saturday Oct 10, 2020
Saturday Oct 10, 2020
We apologise for the quality of this audio. Guided meditation & Dhamma talk by Ajahn Brahmali, given via Zoom (online video) for Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project in England, UK.
Ajahn Brahmali offers some teachings, exploring the Buddhist attitude towards dying, death and rebirth and shares some personal tips on how he has dealt with loss. Ajahn begins with a guided meditation, offering us an opportunity to experience the peace and letting go that leaving this body, (whether through deep meditation, or at the end of this life), can bring.
We invite you to support Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project by making a donation at www.anukampaproject.org/donate (Anukampa's aim to develop a nuns' monastery in England and to continue to distribute the Buddha’s teachings)
Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon.
To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.
Teaching retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMjfndvhCf0